Solar heating and cooling of buildings to improve energy efficiency.

Cycles for chemical storage of solar energy.

The campaign offers access to a wide spectrum of experiments such as:

METU/ODAK: GunSolSim (High flux solar simulator).

ETH Zurich: HFSS (High flux solar simulator) and CHEM (Chemical Laboratory).

IMDEA: HTPU-CDL (Computational Design Lab for High Temperature Processes), HTPU-LAB, KIRAN42 (42kWe High Flux Solar Simulator) and VHCST (Very High Concentration Solar Tower).

PSA-CIEMAT: SOLFU, DESAL, MOSA (Molten Salt Test Loop for Thermal Energy Systems), HIWATOX and SOLWATER.

University of Evora: CER (Renewable Energies Chair), PECS (Solar Concentrators Testing Platform), INIESC (National Research Infrastructure in Solar Energy Concentration) and DNI-N.

ENEA: ESOL (ENEA Solar Collector Optics laboratory), TFC-LAB, OMSoP and PCS.

Fraunhofer ISE: WT Lab, TES-LAb, CD-Lab (Durability testing of materials for concentrated solar thermal), C-Lab Field and CD-Lab.

DLR: Synlight (High-flux solar simulator).

CEA – ESTHER: LHASSA (Latent Heat Storage with PCM).

PROMES-CNRS: MSSFs, MWSF, THEMIS and MicroSol-R.

The Cyprus Institute: FRESNEL, ATHLab (Athalassa’s Heliostat Testing Laboratory), Exposure, Msloop, Receiver and MED.

This call for projects provides free access to 43 installations of 14 state-of-art research infrastructures in Concentrated Solar Thermal power in 8 countries:

The 4 th SFERA-III access campaign has been launched on 1 stNovember 2021. With SFERA-III, benefit from free access to top research infrastructures in Concentrated Solar Thermal power across Europe!

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